Friday, March 28, 2014

People who use wood stoves speak out about the EPA's new rules

These short testimonies of why people support stronger emission standards are a moving tribute to the importance of wood heating in America. These comments were left by people who signed a petition to support stricter emission rules for stoves. After reading these comments, please consider joining

them and sign the petition yourself!Most of the testimonies below are from people who use wood as a primary or secondary source heat for their homes. Almost all want to save more money and breathe cleaner air.These comments, with hundreds of others, will be submitted to the EPA during the public comment period for the proposed rules, which ends on May 5, 2014. In addition to signing the petition, you can also submit more detailed comments directly to the EPA up until May 5. Why I support cleaner and more efficient stoves:George WollenburgELK RIVER, MN

Keeping the burning of renewable fuels as clean as possible will assure they remain as part of our energy solution. I live in an area where quality firewood is plentiful and burning wood keeps my energy costs low.

Anne BornholdtQUINLAN, TX

This being the only source of heat for our home I want it to be clean burning and efficient and expect the product I use meet these standards.

Vito labellaSTATEN ISLAND, NY

Wood heat is important to the working poor. Let's clear the smoke and make an affordable wood stove for those that need the heat!

Allan WilkerBROOKFIELD, VT

My
vocation was designing stoves, wood burning mostly. These new standards are
very possible to achieve. Any manufacture should and can do it. Better and
efficient appliances also mean less wood and fuss. Hard to beat!

Liz KormosVOOHEESVILLE, NY

Wood can be an important source of heat in many parts of the country and can be environmentally sound if you use a low emitting stove. I fully support these standards.

Sat Jiwan Ikle-KhalsaTAKOMA PARK, MD

It's been long overdue to increase the efficiency and emissions standards of America's number one renewable energy. Let's make clean, affordable, renewable energy accessible to all!

David StrausGARDINER, NY

The environment and its protection are absolutely necessary for our, our children, and all future generations. The new regulations will help insure such protection.

Ronald BrowderAWENDAW, SC

A great way to heat homes with a renewable resource. The cleaner the better.

Janet PearsonOLYMPIA, WA

For those of us in states rich with trees, wood stoves can be an important and sustainable source of heat.

Yvette TillemaKEENE, NY

This is important because we should do all we can to take care of our health and the planets health. Get money out of politics and let the good spread like magic.

Lisa DarisCOLUMBUS, OH

I
live in the outskirts of a major urban area, but many homes in my neighborhood
heat with wood stoves for various reasons. As self-sustainability becomes more
integrated into the urban lifestyle, we can't depend on each individual to make
the best choices when it comes to clean air. As much as I value the rights of
the individual, it has been proven time and time again to not be always be in
my best interest. At times, governance is needed, and I firmly believe this is
one of those times.

William
HunterMAKANDA, IL

Best
available data I have seen indicate that we are on the way to a global
environmental catastrophe. I want to do whatever I can to help avoid that.
Cleaner burning wood stoves is a small part of the solution that I can
contribute to.

John ClearyHAMMOND, LA

I
burn wood for my heat but also believe that I am responsible to help preserve
the integrity of "Spaceship Earth" for clean air.

Mary Jane
DillinghamPOLAND,
ME

At
my former home, we were seriously negatively affected by our neighbor’s outdoor
wood boiler. At the time there were no legal approaches to stop our unwilling
neighbor from engulfing our home in smoke. We suffered respiratory problems and
our farm animals needed medial attention. Our property was constantly accosted
with particulates deposited on the surface of the buildings and grounds. We had
a horse farm and hay fields. Please do what you can to stop dirty discharges
from outdoor wood boilers. Thank you. Mary Jane Dillingham, Maine

Steve ParksBOWLER, WI

Here
in north central Wisconsin, wood stoves, furnaces and boilers are more popular
than ever. Unfortunately, the easy way to know this is drive around and count
the houses with the thick dark cloud billowing from a smoke stack, day in and
day out. Going on fifty years, cars have been getting more and more emission
efficient, it's high time wood and pellet stoves do the same to conserve our
wood resources and what's left of our atmosphere.

Bruce LoveBURLINGAME, KS

Our
kids are subjected to enough chemicals in our foods; they don't have to fight
clean air also. I think that this is easy enough for us to achieve.

Timothy LeachCASTINE, ME

I
have used wood to supplement heating our house and as back-up heat in power
outages for over 30 years. Wood heat is a great source of renewable energy

SUZANNE
WARNASCHPORT
MURRAY, NJ

I'm
a grandmother who wants to leave a healthy environment to my grandchildren and
beyond.

Lewis
ThibodeauCLAREMONT,
NH

It
is important for all industries to take responsibility for their impact on
health, the environment, and efficient use of natural resources and to innovate
to that end. The wood heat industry is behind in this when compared to other
industries. I have had the privilege to work in a lab setting testing
technology solutions that produce clean and efficient results. I know that it
is possible and has obvious and exciting potential to become even better. It is
time to make the players in the industry step up to the challenge because it is
the right thing to do for health reasons, environmental reasons, and in the
best long-term interest of the industry.

Harold
GarabedianMONTPELIER,
VT

Continued
progress on lowering emissions and increasing efficiency is critical to
ensuring that the market expand allowing residential wood burning is not
marginalized to rural applications and is allowed to make a greater contribution
to America's use of local renewable energy.

Stephen DuttonSPANISH FORK, UT

No
only does the technology make the air cleaner, but what I see as the even more
important and beneficial reason is you get more heat out of the wood you burn
therefore you burn less wood! Wood is a much better source of heat than home
heating oil which is nasty stuff to handle. Ever hear of a wood spill?
Everything about wood is good.

Erik HenriksonMILFORD, MA

I
support this as it is "the right thing to do" - clean burning stoves
are not just good for air quality but they reduce waste (more heat in the home
for the wood). However, effort needs to be made to encourage folks to burn
clean - even a good stove can pollute if burned improperly.

Gerald & Barbara CooperSPRINGFIELD, NH

Cleaner
wood stove technology means more BTUs of heat in my living room and less particulates
in my lungs!

Louise ClarkKETCHIKAN, AK

Good
wood heat is by far the best most comfortable heat there is superior in every
way to burning fossil fuels, which only destroy our earth from its extraction
to its burning period.

Judy GibsonCOLUMBIA, MO

I
paid more for my stove and after 9 years of use a professional chimney sweep
came to clean our double-walled stainless steel chimney and went away saying,
"There is nothing there to clean". We always burn seasoned hardwood
but took no other precautions on a daily basis.

Paul TheorgoodMAYS LANDING, NJ

Because
the public health benefits outweigh the costs of compliance.

Peter TamposiNASHUA, NH

Need
to bring 20th century technology into the woodstove business.

Jim NortonMIDWAY, UT

I
am a believer in clean air and free renewable resources to heat my house.

Jen drakeFREEVILLE,
NY

Cleaner
burning woodstoves = less fossil fuel use and more money remaining in the local
economy for fuel expenditures, as well as higher 'burn for the buck' and lower
emissions. Best of all possible worlds.

1 comment:

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